Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Comus. Line 1022.

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,

And with forc'd fingers rude

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

Lycidas. Line 3.

He knew

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Lycidas. Line 10.

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Without the meed of some melodious tear.